Tolibjon Mustafoev

Tolibjon Mustafoev is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Sociology of Law (Lund University). His PhD project is titled 'Law and Society in Uzbekistan: Socio-Legal Insights from a Post-Communist Context'. Tolibjon's research project is being conducted within the 'Multilevel Orders of Corruption in Central Asia' and 'Administrative Law Reform and Legal Integration in Hybrid Political Regimes' projects funded by the European Commission and Swedish Research Council. 

Prior to starting his PhD programme, Tolibjon worked as a visiting researcher and lecturer at the Sociology of Law Department, a visiting researcher at the Finnish Centre for Russian, Eurasian and Eastern European Studies (Aleksanteri Institute) at the University of Helsinki, and before that, he worked as a national consultant on crime prevention and promoting a culture of lawfulness among youth at United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Regional Office for Central Asia. In collaboration with UN Vienna Headquarters Tolibjon initiated and created the first youth regional academic and negotiations platform in Uzbekistan "Tashkent International Model UN"; and during 2017-2019 he served as a Secretary General of this organization. He holds a BA (honours) in Commercial Law (Awarded by The University of Westminster, UK) and the LL.M. in Anticorruption Studies (Awarded by the Academy of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan).